Well I bribed IT support, helped him get a better chip and got an upgrade. Had to change Mboard to get a better chip and graphics. Had a wee shot and it was stunning the difference, looked amazing played much quicker and could pop into a rifts no problem but the game will play for about a couple of mins before my whole system crashes and switches off entirely. Talk about the biggest cock tease ever.
It is DIII/RoS thats doing it, DII plays fine (but I have lost my Bnet chars, which didn't help my emotional equilibrium) UT doesn't crash it, we tried some prime number calculator to see if it was the CPU overheating and it wasnt.
The only incompatability program I have is MSI afterburner and that got installed because I was having issues and hasn't made any difference, I suspect the graphics card so I may have to sulk a while until I can get another one.